He was born at Braunschweig in Germany, but spent most of his professional life working in the Netherlands, where he was Director of the Rijksherbarium (state herbarium) at Leiden.
His name is sometimes given in the Dutch language form Karel Lodewijk Blume, but the original Germanic spelling is the one most widely used in botanical texts.
He carried out extensive studies of the flora of southern Asia, particularly in Java, then a colony of the Netherlands.
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It was in Berlin that Alexander began his friendship with the CarlLudwig Willdenow, an expert in the field of botany.
It was first officially named and described by CarlLudwig Willdenow (1765-1812), a botanist, physician and taxonomist who was head of the Botanical Garden in Berlin, Germany, from 1801 until his death
The records of duplicates in foreign herbaria are certainly in several cases untrustworthy, as Blume sent duplicates from various collectors; these acquisitions were occasionally later labelled and listed under his name.
The specimens which had been collected at Government expense (viz Blume and Zippel plants) were selected and kept at the LeidenHerbarium.
It would be certainly worthwhile if a work as Merrill, Species Blancoanae, could be accomplished for Blume’s type specimens, as these authorized specimens are very welcome to the critical phytographer.
He also satates that the generic delimination of the tribe (taxonomic category between the family and genus level) Hygrophileae is "much in need of revision".
The generic name Nomaphila was first used by CarlLudwig von Blume (Blume) in 1826, while the generic name Hygrophila was first published in 1810 by the botanist Robert Brown (R.Br.).
According to the "rules" which govern such things, when there are two (or more) generic names used to describe the same plant, priority is given to the one which was published first - in this case, Hygrophila (1810) takes priority over Nomaphila (1826).
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In 1818 ging er im Auftrag seines Lehrers und Förderers Sebaldus Justinus Brugmans (* 1763 in Franeker /Niederlande, † 1819, Botanikprofessor) als Naturforscher nach Jakarta, das damals noch Batavia hieß.
Nach seiner Rückkehr wurde Blume geadelt; er wurde zum Hofrat und Ritter vom Orden des niederländischen Löwen ernannt.
Then in 1826CarlLudwig von Blume, who studied the flora of Southern Asia, described the plant Nomaphila corymbosa.
The system dates back to May 1st of 1753 and the publication by Carl Linnaeus, of Species Plantarum.
The latest ICB met in Vienna last year and that set of rules is called the Vienna code (2006), before that was the St. Louis Code (2000) and the Tokyo Code (1994).
Consists of seven hundred and thirty-eight botanical engravings which record the plants collected by Joseph Banks and Daniel Carl Solander and drawn by Sydney Parkinson on Captain James Cook's first voyage round the world 1768-1771.
Kuntze, Carl Ernst Otto (Name variant - Karl Eduard Otto Kuntze) 1843-1907
As referenced in Ooststroom's Flora Malesiana translated from Latin and German.